He states that high quality pleasure is easily distinguished from low quality pleasure. High-quality pleasure, according to Mill, is the pleasure that any individual would choose if given two options and informed of the advantages and disadvantages of both. “Few human creatures would consent to be transformed into lower animals in exchange for the promise of fully enjoying the pleasures of a beast; no intelligent human being would consent to be an imbecile, no educated person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even if he were convinced that the imbecile, the dunce or the rascal is better satisfied . with his fate than they are with theirs” (Mill 9). His argument is essentially that an individual will never choose a lesser pleasure than he is capable of, even if the lesser pleasure presents a less troubled existence. In his defense against the group of opponents who claim that the hedonistic foundations of utilitarianism make it a pig-like doctrine, Mill argues that the pleasure-seeking of human beings cannot be equated with the pleasure-seeking of pigs because the quality of pleasure sought by each party is markedly different. He also argues that human beings seeking high-quality pleasure are proof that they are above